6.9. Wednesday series 1

A sullen old man serially kills his wives in Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle, while two feuding families deprive two young lovers of their happiness and lives in Prokofiev’s ballet. Yet they all wanted simply to be loved. Blood-curdling growls and hysterical outbursts issue from the mouths of Mikhail Petrenko and Violeta Urmana, two stars familiar from the Met.